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L'alcade dans L'Embarras: P.36-1942

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

L'alcade dans L'Embarras

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Conder, Charles

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Notes

History note: Sotheby's 25 ii 1942, lot 86

Legal notes

Bought from the Print Duplicates Fund

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1942)

Dating

19th Century
Production date: AD 1899

Note

Part of "The Balzac Set". Twenty-five copies of this set were issued in 1899 in a Portfolio with the title "Six Lithographed Drawings from Balzac by Charles Conder. Published and sold by Carfax & Co., Limited, 17 Ryder Street, St.James's, London, S.W."

Techniques used in production

Lithography

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.36-1942
Primary reference Number: 150575
Dodgson (Conder): 7

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 2 March 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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